BBC: The term "megafire" sounds a bit serious... and so it is.
Even more serious is the idea - raised in a report compiled for a UN meeting this week - that megafires are becoming more frequent.
Still more alarming is the notion that these magafires are somehow quantitatively different from their smaller and more common cousins:
"Megafires exceed all efforts at control until firefighters get a favourable change in weather or a break in fuels.
"Even in countries with modern tools and techniques......
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Megafires – a vicious climate circle?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 11th, 2011
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